Placer, CA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF ROSEVILLE - (CA), LIBERTY UTILITIES, PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC CO., SACRAMENTO MUNICIPAL UTIL DIST, SIERRA PACIFIC POWER CO, TRUCKEE DONNER P U D, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION

ISO / market

CAISO (California Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

230 kV

Substations in county

61

Industrial retail rate

21.6¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

4 of 7 serving utilities: 2.9 to 21.1¢/kWhLowest to highest industrial rate among the utilities serving this county (EIA-861 Sales to Ultimate Customers). A spread, not the county’s rate, and it covers only the serving utilities that report one.

Interconnection queue

None on record

Proposed generation

523 MW planned or under constructionUnits filed with EIA as planned or under construction (Form EIA-860M). Declared intent from the federal inventory, not the interconnection queue and not guaranteed capacity.

Grid carbon intensity

369 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

196 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

95,171 employed in construction within ~120 km (14 of 16 counties reporting)A large build needs hundreds of skilled construction workers on site for one to three years. A county with few of them within commuting range means bussing crews in, per diem, and housing, which is real cost and schedule risk. This counts people employed in construction within about a 120 km drive (BLS QCEW), summed across nearby counties. It is not labor known to be available: most are already committed to other projects, and no public data reveals who is free.

Grid conditions in Placer

For Placer, California, the following sections turn public grid records into a siting-oriented summary. The strongest mapped access in Placer is 230 kV, squarely transmission class. Placer carries 61 substations, a dense footprint across the county.

For Placer, the CAISO market (California Independent System Operator) is the operator that handles interconnection and capacity. The state industrial average retail rate is 21.6 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Placer at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Placer that publish a rate range 4 of 7 serving utilities: 2.9 to 21.1¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

Placer, California has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. Federal filings (EIA-860M) list 523.3 MW of generation as planned or under construction in Placer. Grid carbon intensity for Placer, via its balancing authority, is 369.346 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Placer at 196.1 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Placer, about 95,171 people are employed in construction (BLS QCEW), which speaks to how far crews for a multi-year build would travel, not to labour known to be free.

Read the Placer figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Placer, California qualify one another, so grid access, substation density, market membership, and rate are meant to be read as a set, not in isolation. Past this screening view, siting in Placer, California turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Placer, California traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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